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Istanbul’s Pera Museum has launched a series of hands-on art workshops for school groups and people with disabilities, built around its current exhibition of work by British-Guyanese painter Frank Bowling.
The reservation-only program runs through Jan. 31, 2027.
It pairs guided tours of the exhibition, "Frank Bowling: Creation and Destruction, with an Intervention by Francis Bacon and Victor Willing," with practical workshops on color, texture, figures and space.
The show is organized by the museum’s Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation, which runs its learning programs.
Each school level gets its own workshop. Kindergartners work with oil pastels and gouache in "Colors on Top of Colors," a session inspired by Bowling’s layered surfaces.
Elementary students cut and stack different materials to make their own abstract collages in "An Abstract World from Pieces," drawing on the textured look of Bowling’s paintings.
Middle schoolers take cues from the forms of Irish-born painter Francis Bacon in "Transformation of the Figure." They draw figures, break them apart and reassemble them to explore movement and expression.
High school students focus on the spatial compositions of Victor Willing in "Layers of Perception," combining drawings of one space from several viewpoints into a single composition.
Under the museum’s "Pera Accessible" banner, a separate set of workshops supports sensory and motor skills.
In "Tactile Layers of Color," participants build abstract compositions from materials of different textures that can be felt by touch. In "Movements That Leave Marks," they use sponges, rollers and printing tools to make marks on a surface, working alone or together on shared pieces.
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